The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-11-10
News Of Belfast and Vicinity.
And now the honest dealer packs
His apples up for town;
This is the top row of his sacks,
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| The annual report Of the Maine General Hospital
shows that there were eighteen patients treated
| from Waldo county.
Mrs Louisa S. Allarl, wife of the late Isaac
Alard Senior, formerly of this city, died in Boston
recently, aged 81 ychrs.
Our local market men think Thanksgiving poul.
try will not be of such good quality as in the past
Turkeys will range in price from Is to 20 cents per
pound
Col. EEers, who has charge of one of the crews
laying the water pipes in this city, has lost time
| book. The finder will confer favor by return
| ing it.
iir Percy 4. Sanborn has just completed very
pleasing OF, painting from a sketch made at the
upper end of Quantebacook pond. 1t may be seen
at his studio
\ gale of wind prevailed in this vicinity last
Friday and saturday, and Saturday morning there
WAS 4 brief snow squall, which will pass for the
first snow fall of the season.
Our attention has been called the fact that Bel
fast vessels obliged to send to Camden for their
blocks, sheaves &c. We have block shop here
but il does little or no work. There is enough for
one man to do and it should he done at home.
Sheriff Wadsworth went to Bangor on Thursday
last and delivered James Norwood to the Jail in
that city Norwood was fined 800 and costs In a
! liquor case and was committed in default of pay
mcnt 1t WAS expected he would pay Oh arrival at
Bangor, bat lie did not.
The Waldo County Agricultural Society did not
take money enough at the recent fair in this city
to pay all the premiums in full. The receipts were
sl;o less than in Is>G, owing to the storm on the
/ dry Thn trrsf tor h1v LODI IN bnlJ
the fair earlier next year.
Invitations have been received by friends in this
city to the wedding of Mr. Willard II. Burbank, of
| Boston, formerly of Bangor, to Miss Mary Lizzie
knowles, OF Charestown, Mass, on Friday eve
ming, Nov. II. Miss Knowles is the daughter of
Ms. Flora ID. knowles, formerly of Belfast.
Local matters on the first page are: A Lincoln.
! vile Mystery; notice of Mr.. f. l.. Beams new
store in Searsmont; W. I. c. L. call for day of
prayer ion the temperance cause; An Old Map;
obituary notice ri Rinaldo Elder, and on the fourth
page a report of the North Haven fishing fleet.
We saw at the steamboat wharf last week a row
boat biiilt by Capt. +. f. Williams, of Islcsboro,
which i'll workmanship, model and material, would
be hard to excel. The boa; has locks for three
pairs of oars, has good beam with fine ends and is
/ Nery r:if while easy 10 row. She is painted white
with harrow red beads, has ash trimmings and ash
and mahogany gratill,-s and back board. Mr.. F.
Wrote has bought the boat for the use of the club
! III Pitchers pond, of which he is Il member
some of oar exchanges are publishing an item
concerning the discontinuancc of the post-otlice at
| Nor:s'ort Camp Ground, together with the special
service from East Northport This is hardly in the
!n#t;,c oi news, as the action noted was taken near
1 lbs ND ROM fol in tho IT,,
The time. When it is said of the Northport Office
that. ''Its permanent dlscontinuance will prove
source of great Inconvenience to the thousands
who slci.'i from few days to an entire season at
tina: popular resort the writer of the item cx-
hibits stupidity of the densest kind. The service
is simply discontinued when there is no one to
serve, and will DC resumed when the summer pop
Hlaji"n returns to Northport.
MI Frederick W. Vaughn, Il native of Warren,
died recently at Louisville, Ky, aged 43 years. He
was 4 acrhcw OF Capt II. A. Starrctt of this city,
nj frequently visited Belfast where he had many
! friends. Mr. Vaughan was educated by Capt. Star
rett and graduated as a civil engineer during the
second year OF the lie went south with the
coniaand OF Gen. Thomas as an engineer, and had
much practice in bridge building. a. the close of
/ ;ilc w;;r liz remained in the South where he won
/
bridge at Louisville which is said to have the
longest span of any bridge in the world ard was
president OF the Louisville Bridge and Iron Com
pany and several other institutions. His death
| was caused 10y rverwork.
| TIE Law AM, THE LIQUOR SELLERS. Wednes-
day evening, Nov. ;, Constable Mitchell visited the
Penobscot House, Browns Corner, Northport, kept
by Fcc,; g. Benner, and found quantity of LIQUOR
| lenncr was arrested and taken next day before
Trial Justice NJ. L. Hell. Mr.. Mitchell testified to
finding the liquor and also that Benner held L.
:. license. Bcnner pleaded not guilty but waived
! examination. lie was fined 800 and costs, from
which he appealed. Joseph A. Gilmore and Fred
l.. Carter, who were indicted at the last term of
court and absentcd themselves until after the court
lad adjourned arrested and gave bail last
| week. ....A bner G. Gilmore, convicted on two
counts at the recent term of court left town before
the julies reported and is still absent
The sl"op Edith Capt. L. F. Williams, which
runs a. a packet between this port and Isesboro,
Is as smart boat of her inches can be found in
these waters, and blow high blow low, with her
veteran skipper al the helm, size makes her regular
| trips. Recently she came from the Island
When the steamer Elcctl did not the bay or
the NJ. ~ NJ. venture down river. The Edith was
| ''lI.t, spared and rugged by her owner and com.
| mander, who also made the sails and the blocks
lie i'aiit the boat when he retired from the sea
ei'' eii years ago, intending TO her pleasure
craft but got into the packet business and in the
past eleven years the Edith has carried many tons
OF freight and numerous passengers between Bel
| last and lslesboro. Capt Williams will haul off
soon, and, rs he expresses it, "spend the winter
alongside the stove.''
" OLD DEED. Mr.. George W. Frisbee, night
policeman Of this city, has handed us an old deed
belonging to his wifc's family. The document is
III years Old, and is in good state of preserva-
ton, and the writing perfectly legiblc. The in
| sti"inent conveys Il portion of land In Weston
Mass, from Benjamin and Abigail Harrington to
| their son Isaac Harrington. The deed saws the
property is i'll the County of Mi,ldlesex, in His
Maicstics Province of Massachusetts Bay in New
| England Tie deed is dated 'This second Day of
July In yc year of our Lord God One Thousand
Seven Hundred and sixteen and In We Second year
| OF tie Reign of the sovereign Lord George by
the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and
| Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, &C." This
decd was drawn sixteen years before George
| Washington was born.
TIE GAME BAG. Judge Johnson's party of deer
hunters leave Belfast this afternoon for the wids
| OF Maine. They 90 to Bangor in the steamer NJ.
| " NJ, where they will meet Mr.. TwOmby of Mon
rec, with four horse team. The route will be
over the Mir Line or Calais road for seventy five
miles, when detOEr to the north will be made and
camp pitched some where in No. 81, where deer are
said to dc plentiful. Mr.. Charles II. Coombs and
Mr. John Wilson. of this city, left Saturday morn
ing for Northeast IIarbor, Mt. Desert, and will oc
cupy the camp ON IIadlock Pond, used for two sea
sons past by Belfast parties. The trip is made
with team. Deer are said to be plentiful there
of the state i'll the person of Miss Mary McCorri-
SON. a young lady who is not only very progresses
ing, hut very expert with shot gun. Last week
she went into the woods and baggcd a partridge.
| and subsequently shot Il fox. We shall claim for
her the championship until the record is broken.
....Sevcrl local sportsmen went partridge hunt
ing last week and Pounds the birds quite plentiful
in this vicinity but it requires skilled hunter to
bag Them. Few wild geese have been hear, pass
ing over this fall, and their DELAYED southwark
i flight indicates mild weather.
Personal. Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Harris. Of
this city, have gone to New York. They will spend
the winter in Los Angeles, Cal :. Mr.. A. J. Ma
son, of this city, left last week for southern Cali
forna where he will pass the winter. He goes for
his health. I'D. F. Gerrity 4 Co., of Bangor re-
Gently finished a crayOn portrait of Senator Nick
els, of SearspOrt MIR. A. G. HINT and wife ,raro